On February 2 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that Washington State Department of Ecology and Coastal Watershed Institute (CWI) will receive $1,000,000 from the National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grant program. This will fund a significant portion of the Beach Lake Acquisition and Restoration project. Located along the central Strait of Juan de Fuca, […]

Tuesday, 6 June  2017, 6:30pm at the Landing Mall conference room. Coastal Watershed Institute will host author Dr. Colin Levings as he discusses highlights from his new book ECOLOGY OF SALMONIDS IN ESTUARIES AROUND THE WORLD: ADAPTATIONS, HABITATS AND CONSERVATION.

Join the Coastal Watershed Institute and partners including Lafarge Holcim and Peninsula College for an update on the implementation of one of the largest nearshore ecosystem projects in the Salish Sea-the Twin Rivers  nearshore ecosystem restoration project. Details on the project are in the CWI blog here: Restarting a sediment engine along the Strait of Juan […]

JOIN CWI, PATAGONIA, AND FRIENDS MORE INFO... Dr. Thomas Quinn, Professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington, is a leading authority on salmon and trout. He is a principal researcher for the UW Alaska Salmon Program, where his research in Bristol Bay has helped to reveal many of the patterns […]

Patagonia's New Documentary ‘Blue Heart’ Highlights the Destruction of European Rivers The Balkan region—richly diverse in cultures, languages and history—is home to the last wild rivers on the European continent. The region truly is the Blue Heart of Europe. However, a hydropower gold rush is putting these rivers at risk: Hydropower is the only “renewable” energy […]

Four years after the world’s largest dam removal, the Coastal Watershed Institute (CWI) and partners continue critically important nearshore ecosystem restoration along the Elwha shoreline, including the Beach Lake Conservation Area. While our work restoring and managing the site is still very much underway, beginning the first of December, the site will be ready to […]

CWI #GivingTuesday 2019 Call to (Field) Action (link) A field day to celebrate the nearshore Tuesday 3 December 2019. The Coastal Watershed Institute celebrates  the nearshore on GivingTuesday joining millions around the world participating in the global generosity. The nearshore is a critical link that supports our wild ecosystems and watersheds. The nearshore is complex but […]

Short takes on long term nearshore science *and* highlights of collaborator work on freshwater habitat restoration

Lawrence M Dill, PhD Evolutionary & Behavioral Ecology and Earth2Ocean Research Groups of Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada presented: When: Tuesday August 14th 2012 6:30 PM Where: Landing Mall, Port Angeles The discussion included: • The impacts that salmon farms can have on wild salmon stocks • Recent research on sea lice and other […]